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The Oscar nominee Julie
Walters ( star of "Educating
Rita has teamed up once
again with her pal 7-- the
playwright, songwriter,
scriptwriter, and comic
actress Victoria Wood, for a
new side-splitting series,
"As Seen on TV".
In the new six -part laugh -
along, the round and robust
Wood takes vigorous side-
swipes at insensitivity and
officialdom gone berserk.
Her hum)r encompasses,
and laments, the dead-end
lives of girls with nothing to
look forward to but bigger
and better washing ma-
chines and with only tran-
quillizers to dull the pain.
Each show features an or-
iginal song written and com-
posed by Victoria. She has
also written all the sketches,
plus a soap opera spoof,
"Acorn Antiques". And to
cap it all, Victoria .is the star
of the show as well, and gets
each program off to a flying
start with a :five-minute
stand-up comedy routine.
Tune in Thursday, Nov. 7,
at 10:00 p.m. on TVOntario.
Despite evidence that it
does not work, free trade as
an ideal has been a feature of
our economic life in the post-
war world. In fact, both the
Mulroney administration
and the Macdonald Royal
Commission have suggested
that free trade between
Canada and the United
States could solve our
economic problems.
Even though many
question the acceptance of
such an arrangement be-
tween the United States and
Canada, the champions of
free trade remain resolute.
Free trade zealots claim
that protectionism denies us
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NORTH AND SOUTH—Starring Patrick Swayze as
Orry Main and Lesley -Anne Down as Madeline.
NORTH AND SOUTH will be telecast on the CTV
Television Network in a 12 -hour mini-series com-
mencing November 3.
Crossroads—Oct. 30, 1985—Page 1B
Canada's
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by Bruce Whitestone
the benefits of more efficient
production and cheaper pro-
ducts, that it shelters de-
clining industries which need
the discipline of competition,
•and that it delays the trans-
ition to the economy of new
industries. Classical free
trade enthusiasts have point-
ed to the advantages ,of
specialization and the bene-
fits of competition. If Pacific
Rim nations, for instance,
can make shoes at half the
price of Canadian shoe
manufacturers, it is claimed
that means that we can af-
sfohrodest.o buy twice as many
All of this is not how the
economy really works, and it
ignores the long -run interest
in the wisest use of re-
sources. In fact, government
intervention now helps a
nation to make inroads and
destroy industry in another
country; it creates artificial
advantages. Also, if a nation
• or plant were not operating
at optimum levels (and few
are), then naturally favor-
able circumstances do not
exist.
The comparative advan-
tage in trade now does not
evolve because of natural
factors in the modern world;
rather it is developed by
state intervention. Govern-
ments pursue policies to en-
sure that domestic industries
thrive and foreign imports
are curbed. This is more
often the rule rather than 'the
exception. The theory that
the free market will lead to
the ,,most competentpro-
ducers winning out is fiction
now as frequently foreign
competition is throttled by
assistance to domestic pro-
ducers and barriers to im-
ports.
In theory the system 'of
free trade is self-regulating.
By the free market test
Japan should be paying a
heavy price for its trade pro-
tectionism. Of course, that
has not been the case. In-
dustries in the rest of the
world have been decimated
by Japanese competition
which then can control world
markets as producers in
other nations have been des-
troyed.
The seductive allure of
free trade really represents
the projection of idealism
onto the real world economy.
Unfortunately, too few play
by the rules, so the theory
does not work out in actual
practices.
JOHNNY ANI)
FRANK AND
KID KONG
Wayne and Shuster,
masters of the art of come-
dy, are back for another
season with their unique
humor that has entertained
Canada, and the world, for
over 40 years– The season
opener, "Kid Kong", a take-
off on "King Kong", one of
the great movies of all times,
airs Sunday, November 3 at 8
p.m. on CBC Television.
• The duo, whose comedy
specials are regularly seen
by an average of 1.5 million
viewers, excells at turning
everyday situations into
laughter -filled hits.
Television commercial, a
favorite target of Johnny .
Wayne and Frank Shuster,
are rewritten for the first
special of the 1985-1986 sea-,
son. Among the chosen ad
subjects are The National
Exaggerator, the hard-hit-
ting no -holds barred tabloid
that brings you carefully -
researched fabrications
about well-known people;
The Man from Grab (need
we say' more); Moose Man-
kowski delivering a timely
Safety Tip .and everyone's
favorite Muffler commercial.
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